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#1 2012-06-22 17:36:07

David Bird
Eggcornista
From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

A timely eggcorn

I ran across the following usage.

The formulation process is tedious and timely.
http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques/TSS/kemon-test.pdf

I think they meant “time-consuming”. So I’m putting this one before the assembled wisdom of Eggcornistan. Interesting eggcorn or goofy solecism? Or some nice combination of the two maybe.

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#2 2012-06-23 02:43:19

JuanTwoThree
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From: Spain
Registered: 2009-08-15
Posts: 455

Re: A timely eggcorn

I see that thousands of people like the sound of “tiredsome”. Also too close to the original to be a fully hatched eggcorn, but pretty nevertheless. Is there a name hereabouts for these?


On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.

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#3 2012-06-23 12:14:36

burred
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From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

Re: A timely eggcorn

Awedsome. I like the idea that a tiredsome task is one that makes me some tired. But it’s probably the result of a cuddledsome d. Otherwise one would have liked to find irkedsome, which is not out there, and not gruedsome, which is.

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